Viscount Goschen: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	For each of the last 10 years for which figures are available (a) what proportion of drivers had driving licences with no endorsements; and (b) how many people were banned from driving.

Lord Warner: Primary care trusts are currently recommissioning dental services in cases where dentists have chosen not to take up a new NHS dental contract from 1 April 2006. Based on provisional management information, we estimate that these rejected contracts represent around 4 per cent. of NHS services. Based on levels of patient registrations prior to 1 April, this means that primary care trusts are now recommissioning services for 900,000 patients using the extra resources the Government have put into NHS dentistry.
	The reforms introduced from 1 April are designed to promote wider improvements in access to services, in particular through ensuring for the first time that primary care trusts have the resources to recommission services for their local population where a dentist ceases to provide NHS services, and through promoting compliance with expert clinical guidelines on patient recall intervals. We will need to allow time for the reforms to bed down before reassessing levels of access to NHS dental services.
	The Department of Health has previously estimated that 2 million people in England would like to access National Health Service dental services but are unable to do so.
	Access to NHS dental services for people in Wales is a matter for the Welsh Assembly.